Example sentences of "it to [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then scattered it on pub floors or gave it to friends to buy drugs . |
| 2 | Well she 'll just give it to Ellie to give her . |
| 3 | You owe it to Marilyn to keep going you know . |
| 4 | I owe it to Victoria to lend some retrospective weight to our parting . |
| 5 | This may be true , but is it any reason why the courts should not do justice as best they can , leaving it to Parliament to intervene again if the decision does not meet with Parliament 's approval ? |
| 6 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 7 | I was gon na give it to Ian to take to college tonight , but he 's not in so I ca n't , so I 've got ta send it now but I ca n't address . |
| 8 | from there and now course they got shipped out and then they used to be a ship as well , used to take it to sea called the |
| 9 | Will the Prime Minister state clearly and concisely that , irrespective of the place or the audience or the day of the week , he has but one policy for the fourth Trident submarine — to build it , equip it and send it to sea armed for the nation 's defence ? |
| 10 | when I told her about and she come running back to me on phone the other week Glenys , Glenys , she said will you tell people if they spend twenty five pound at Tescos , I thought well that wo n't be me , or is it thirty , you get a thing and to take it to school to put towards computers |
| 11 | you had to break it to bits to eat it |
| 12 | We owe it to clarity to disentangle the varieties of suffering possible in a given situation . |
| 13 | But when it comes to the middle of the night , most of them prefer to leave it to mum to comfort the tiny tot when he 's having a tantrum . |
| 14 | Indeed , ‘ so much engaged with his Collections and twenty other matters ’ was he that he left it to prince to contact his colleagues and subscribers to inform them of the ‘ results of his journey ’ . |
| 15 | Soon after they had arrived in New York Anna had torn a dress and Mrs Carson had handed it to Ruth to repair . |
| 16 | It was their job to get results , but they left it to others to act on the research findings . |
| 17 | It is by no means altogether improbable , for instance , that some ordinary person on the periphery of a murder should be so disturbed by some apparent contradiction of character that he or she feels obliged to talk about it to others involved , and thus gradually comes to unearth the secret of character you have put at the heart of your story . |
| 18 | If we prove something to our own satisfaction , we can release our energies for finding out about the subject : proving it to others takes second place . |
| 19 | Let us not leave it to others to fight for our goals . ’ |
| 20 | Judge Owen stayed the proceedings last November , ruling the trial should not go ahead because delays in bringing it to court amounted to an abuse of the court process . |
| 21 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 22 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 23 | When it expired he handed it to Romany to prepare another . |
| 24 | Lyman ( 1883 ) was unsure of the identity of this species and assigned it to Ophiacantha thinking that it might be a juvenile O. anomala . |
| 25 | He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move . |
| 26 | I give it , I 'll tell you who I give it to Deanne do you remember Deanne ? |
| 27 | Kits are available to fit window widths up to 245cm ( 8ft ) and if the size of your window falls between sizes , buy the next size up and cut it to size according to the manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 28 | I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman has said , because it enables me to explain that proposals for a local income tax relating it to ability to pay have been rejected in Committee and on Report , so we are now in the business of trying to improve this unfair tax which is based on property . |
| 29 | Cos they 're obviously saying oh give it to Ange look . |
| 30 | ‘ Leaving it to business takes away personal involvement , ’ says Brian Duffy , chairman and managing director of London-based building group Brown & Jackson . |